LEGO Island Old LEGO Island Message Board

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If you've never seen it, take a look at this old LEGO Island 1/2 fan site:

 

http://www.oocities.org/wonkeyzonkey/main.html

 

It was hosted on Geocities, which taken offline in 2009, but is mirrored on the website linked above now. I remember it coming up in LEGO Island discussions on BZPower years back, and as far as I know it's the source of the "bataat" cheat code for LI2 (which lets you use the hats/hair the developers in the cave have on the LEGO Island citizens) - the LI2 devs apparently told the website author about both that cheat and the "sdreams" cheat to unlock the cave. Maybe the cave cheat was first posted there as well, who knows.

 

Anyway, I was poking around and found the site apparently goes back to as early as 2000, and was originally hosted on another server/domain - and of course it was only a LEGO Island 1 site at the time, as LI2 wouldn't be released for another year:

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20000816122150/http://mykonos.cve.uri.edu/lego/

 

As of April 2001 the site moved to Geocities, due to the old host not being sufficient for the site's traffic (note LI2 still hadn't been released yet):

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20010716062323/http://mykonos.cve.uri.edu/lego/

 

But more interestingly, and the main reason I'm posting this topic, if you look at the earliest archive of the site, it had a message board for LI1:

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20000823015548/http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb887196

 

There's not a ton of posts there, but still more than you might expect. It's kind of interesting, seeing people trying to figure out character names, and there was a discussion of what people would want out of a sequel (though all but the first post in that thread isn't archived). Also a rumor you could play as the Brickster, which I guess is actually kinda true with debug mode.

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i love this site already